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Open AccessThe thyroid function of Graves' disease patients is aggravated by depressive personality during antithyroid drug treatment
We previously reported that depressive personality (the scores of hypochondriasis, depression and psychasthenia determined by the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)) and daily hassles of Graves...
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Resistance to Thyroid Hormones and Screening for High Thyroxine at Birth
Resistance to thyroid hormone encompasses a heterogeneous group of conditions characterized by reduced responses of target tissues to a supply of thyroid hormone which under normal circumstances would be exces...
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A New Form of X-Chromosome Linked TBG Abnormality with No Demonstrable T4-Binding Activity
Diagnostic work-up for short stature uncovered TBG deficiency in an 11 year old girl (propositus) with XO Turner’s syndrome. Studies on members of the family revealed that the two hemizygous affected subjects ...
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Thyroid Function Tests in Subjects with a Genetic Isoelectric Focusing Variant TBG
A variant thyroxine-binding globulin (TBG) with slower migration on isoelectric focusing (TBG-S) has been found in some American Blacks. It is inherited as an X-chromosome-linked trait. Hemizygous males with T...